The last census provided the disappointing news that the Christian population, which was 2.9% in 1971, has now declined to 2%. This information should be taken very seriously. For this highlights the fact that the Christian population in this land is not increasing but declining.

Even today there are thousands of people in this land who have never heard the gospel, not even once. There are many places where not one single Christian lives, and there are several districts which do not have a single Church.

In Karnataka there are about 1.1 million Christians, with about 300 thousand living in Bangalore. Most of the Christians in Karnataka worship in the Catholic Church. Although most of the headquarters of Christian organizations are situated in Bangalore city, those organizations with a vision of reaching Karnataka are very few.

There are hardly any Kannada Missionary organizations that have the vision to reach their own people with the gospel of Christ. Rather the percentage of Tamils and Malayalee missionaries who learn Kannada to reach Kannadigas is much higher. In Karnataka it is an undisputed fact that the number of Christian Churches that hold services in English, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam, is much higher than the number of those holding services in Kannada.